Resentment
“Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies.”
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Maggi has kept a blog since September 2003, writing about theology and faith, the arts and literature, and a little about life and random nonsense...
In an increasingly secularised society few people have a good working knowledge of the Bible. Yet a great deal of our culture is built on stories or ideas that come from the Bible. Literature, art, music, language and even the fabric of our society - such as our justice system - are built on Christian concepts and biblical references. The Writing on the Wall provides a fascinating introduction to the Bible's best-known, and most influential, stories. Each chapter gives some background to the text of the Bible, and shows how the stories have become enmeshed in Western culture. Adam and Eve, the ten plagues of Egypt, The Prodigal Son and Mary Magdalene all feature - along with how the Bible has influenced everyone from Shakespeare to Monty Python, and Caravaggio to Banksy. 
Giving It Up explores the Lenten idea of 'giving up', taking it beyond the traditional idea of simply abstaining from something, and suggesting instead that what we need to give up is our existing ideas about God. With a daily readings for each day of Lent, from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, it follows the heroes of the Bible who had to give up their own too-small ideas about God.
This is Maggi’s bestselling book of daily readings for each day of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany. Advent is the beginning of the Church year, and marks the anticipation of the coming Messiah. These readings explore how beginnings and endings in our own lives are illuminated by the different Gospel narratives of Christ's coming.
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Oh great, I’m not the only person who thinks this!
Abusive family background, decided not to have children when I was fifteen, turned out to be infertile anyway –> basically I’m not the target demographic for MommyFest.
Celebrating a church which has given me mentors, intellectual stimulation, fun, food for thought, friends, cake, … on the other hand, I’d be happy to do.
Hear hear! I’ve read Kathryn’s post, and have emailed her about this before, and it does sound as though her service addressed the things I generally feel intensely uncomfortable about. I am extremely lucky – I have 2 healthy happy children, I didn’t have any infertility issues, but I still find Mothers’ Day services intensely uncomfortable. In fact I’m very much hoping that yesterday will be the last one that I attend. I don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade, but avoiding smugness – ‘Look at us, aren’t we a lovely 2 parent nuclear family, aren’t we doing well’ doesn’t address the aspects of parenting that so many people need. The grief of infertility, of bereavement, post-natal depression, the anger and inadequacy so many mothers feel, the difficult relationships many people have with their mothers. Just like Valentine’s Day, Mothers’ Day just ladles on the pressure to conform to a chocolate-box ideal.
And yes, I love the cards my children gave me, and the picture they made for me, and there is a place for celebrating what is good, but I don’t think the ’standard’ way is the right way.